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Empowering the next generation: ANS’s newest book focuses on careers in nuclear energy
A new career guide for the nuclear energy industry is now available: The Nuclear Empowered Workforce by Earnestine Johnson. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience across 16 nuclear facilities, Johnson offers a practical, insightful look into some of the many career paths available in commercial nuclear power. To mark the release, Johnson sat down with Nuclear News for a wide-ranging conversation about her career, her motivation for writing the book, and her advice for the next generation of nuclear professionals.
When Johnson began her career at engineering services company Stone & Webster, she entered a field still reeling from the effects of the Three Mile Island incident in 1979, nearly 15 years earlier. Her hiring cohort was the first group of new engineering graduates the company had brought on since TMI, a reflection of the industry-wide pause in nuclear construction. Her first long-term assignment—at the Millstone site in Waterford, Conn., helping resolve design issues stemming from TMI—marked the beginning of a long and varied career that spanned positions across the country.
Mateo Ramos, Javier Gil (Tecnatom)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 918-923
EASE-t-pro is a proven-in-use Computerized Procedure System designed and developed by Tecnatom. Much more than simply digitizing procedures, this system automates all aspects of procedure use and maintenance while embedding human performance, operating experience, supervisory oversight and many more important functions. Users benefit from important safety improvements, human error reductions and costs savings. EASE-t-pro provides three modules to perform integrated procedures management. An editing tool is used to create and revise procedures. A web application is used by control room operators to execute procedures and by other profiles for supervision, management and information analysis. Its mobility application allows field workers to execute procedures and to have access to related information working in online or offline modes. Key system features include: monitoring plant real-time data, automated place-keeping and branching to other procedures, immediate access to related documents (technical specifications, training material, pictures, videos, etc.), pre-determined and customized alerts, warnings, and anomalies, condition report generating, barcode scanning, execution records and data analysis. Ease-t-pro also integrates with existing electronic document management systems (EDMS) and protocols have been created to streamline the converting existing procedures. The system ensures a better coordination among the operation and maintenance shift allowing control room operators to track and review field tasks increasing plant situation awareness. The use of QR codes or indoor positioning systems (IPS) guarantee the operation of the correct equipment at the required time and keep the record to prove it. Although it is not necessary to benefit from the advantages of using that system, having WiFi increases the flow of real-time information between field digital workers and control room operators allowing for instance to monitor all the activities being executed or to share a picture or video of an event found during a round.
